Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Proverbs 21:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
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Quick Meaning
This verse opens with “The soul of the wicked desireth evil” and develops the line through “his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 21:10–13
At Proverbs 21:10, the unit opens with “The soul of the wicked desireth evil” and develops the line through “his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes”. That precise work supports “Friendship, neighbor-love, loyalty, and boundaries — The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour...” without importing a neighboring verse's subject or making the line a complete policy.
Why This Verse Appears Here
At verse 21:10, Proverbs opens with “The soul of the wicked desireth evil” and develops the line through “his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes”. The line belongs to “Friendship, neighbor-love, loyalty, and boundaries — The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour...” and remains governed by the unit's source limits and misuse boundaries.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no...”
In plain language: friendship, neighbor-love, loyalty, and boundaries
This verse opens with “The soul of the wicked desireth evil” and develops the line through “his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes”.
Why it matters: This wording gives the verse its distinct role inside the cluster.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
Wise relationships join loyal presence and honest counsel with boundaries that refuse exploitation. In Proverbs 21:10, that bounded truth is expressed through “The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no...,” not through a promise detached from its literary form.
How It Can Shape Life
- Show up consistently, speak difficult truth with care, receive correction, and protect the relationship from secrecy, flattery, and enabling harm. For Proverbs 21:10, preserve the sequence: verse role (opens with “The soul of the wicked desireth evil” and develops the line through “his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes”) -> contextual meaning in Proverbs 21:10–13 -> proportionate truth -> this accountable response.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 21:10–13 — Friendship, neighbor-love, loyalty, and boundaries — The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour...Sources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
Where care is needed
This sentence saying states a context-shaped moral pattern. Its small-cluster boundary and degree of generality remain reviewable; exceptional outcomes do not make the observation meaningless or turn it into a guarantee.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 21:10–13, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 21:10-21:13
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Proverbs with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, lexical, grammatical, syntactic, parallelism, and older-English controls for the exact range.
Exact location: NET Bible Proverbs PDF, printed pp. 1144-1148, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 21:10–13
Open source ↗